Here is the 3rd of the 3 published poems from the "Pull My Daisy" series - which was a joint focus by the 3 Beat Generation leaders (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady) to produce a product which included input from each contributor. This particular (final) version seems to date back to 1958. Note the differences between the 3 versions...beginning with "Fie my Fum" several blogposts ago, moving to "Pull my Daisy II", to this version.

Fie my Fum begins as a simple 4 stanza lyrical delight (it was called a "song") - mostly the work of the young Kerouac in 1949 and 1950 - but a delight that appears to be mostly the creative work of Kerouac.

Pull My Daisy II includes more Ginsberg as well as the influence of Kerouacs wild "On the Road" partner, the infamous Neal Cassady. Note that the piece moves back to poetic rather than lyrical form - I can just imagine Kerouac scribing while his wild friends Ginsberg and Cassady dictate their insertions, notably the following verses, inserted line by line into the middle of the original song stanzas (plus more stanzas from Kerouac and Cassady to accommodate the process) from Fie my Fum:

It appears that these verses are largely the work of Allen Ginsberg, and they must have had a drunken giggle as they imagined the disruption and usual outrage these verses would cause.

The final version below largely removes these verses and returns to the fun-to-read (and speak) lyrical song-style that was started with Fie my Fum back in 1950. Enjoy!

P.S. - If you find these posts interesting, and Jack Kerouacs writing inspiring and stimulating, you need to add the books below to your collection. This poem is included in "Scattered Poems" and our Twitter Haiku daily tweet series #Jackaday features Haikus from "Book of Haikus". Of course, NOBODY should be without the classic inspirational novel "On the Road" - which played a critical part in forming the "Beat Generation" as well as the larger "Hippy Movement" of the 1960's - the theme of "kicks" and "freedom".